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Gaylor said the department recorded 445 apparatus responses in April 2025 compared with 385 in April 2024, an increase he cited as about 13.48 percent. \"April was a busy month for us,\" Gaylor said, adding the department's average turnout time was one minute and 12 seconds for the month. He also noted year-to-date call volume is up more than 8 percent compared with the prior year.

On efforts to reduce non-emergency calls from long-term-care facilities, Gaylor said the city added \"a community, paramedicine, or paramedic to our our staff earlier this year.\" He said that through education and outreach their calls to extended-care facilities dropped from 66 events in April 2024 to 46 events in April 2025. \"This still equates to over 20% of our EMS runs,\" he said, but described the reduction as progress.

Board members asked about forecasting future call-volume growth; Gaylor said the department uses 20–25 years of trend data and predictive modeling and typically plans for a 3–10 percent annual increase. He told the board the department's planning scenarios generally use a 5–10 percent range and that the current year-to-date increase of about 8 percent aligns with those forecasts.

Gaylor also said road construction can affect response routing and that coordination with city public-works staff allows dispatchers to reroute resources when planned closures are announced. He noted some challenges remain when external agencies or utilities do not provide timely closure notices.

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\"This proposal this year is significantly under our budgeted amount,\" said West Rood, the city's stormwater coordinator, describing the work as roughly 900 linear feet in four locations. Rood told the board the installation is highly customized rather than engineered to a single design and that the city has adjusted its construction standards in response to the neighborhood's issues.

Rood said the city is \"well over halfway\" through correcting drainage problems in the neighborhood and that Daystar is \"exceptionally familiar\" with the area because of its long-standing working relationship and prior trial-and-error installations over the last decade. He said the city continues to solicit bids but that the custom, field-based nature of the work limits competitive responses absent engineered plans.

Board members asked how the city coordinates with homeowners associations and property owners; Rood said the work is meant to be a permanent solution and that HOAs are asked to manage street trees per covenants. He added the city often aligns sump-line repairs with planned resurfacing so pavement cuts are minimized and repairs occur before street resurfacing, an approach he credited to collaboration with the resurfacing program.

The motion to approve was made, seconded and passed by voice vote with \"Aye\" recorded.","The board approved a proposal for approximately 900 linear feet of sump-line drainage work in four locations in the Centennial neighborhood, using Daystar, a contractor familiar with the area; staff said the work is custom, coordinated with resurfacing schedules, and under this year's budgeted amount.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6221121,"Board approves property transfers to correct deed errors, transfer RDC parcels near Park Street",238,101000,339000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3614779-145c54e15a7dc1d98d47b4cdcccc1db2&start=101&end=339","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3614779-145c54e15a7dc1d98d47b4cdcccc1db2/thumbnail_101000.jpg","/articles/6221121/Westfield/Hamilton-County/Indiana/Board-approves-property-transfers-to-correct-deed-errors-transfer-RDC-parcels-near-Park-Street","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6221121-9ae5dc4465afb38a1263bf350a6b42d1/orig.mp4?Expires=1771083233&Signature=Py1sCKvrDdbwEsbZA3D47JI~POOfqifyq4eSRpm3pk8ULLKaN7eXbE55unKpZnJYj9xtvsS1rODIF1rCMEzzvCJxSGNZy7JZJWr8vAKmDMaYHuS3PNXMauAeI2pW4FpadPO-7tW0wkF~ox~YUikgdIUSCGAbl0XkGcnqFd9Kqvwh5OvKH0nYFUNRsTm2-ZMGHoEzZVmkRSGEComQwKWjKMB3GMkB1i70eZmNU1Z2eVNWJSGBE~NAw1hdk0LCDy4b5U-erXFB2pI5m5OAD4JxFvP~0QhfGuMogsi4vxgBlqFVgg6oMq99~~3wvQOTlzAi0fJn2LWA4Ez8ylxZKj~n6A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Westfield Board of Public Works and Safety unanimously approved two resolutions aimed at correcting prior deeds and transferring city property to the Redevelopment Commission (RDC).

An economic-development staff member told the board the first action is \"basically just correcting an inadvertent error in a legal description.\" The city will accept the portion of property conveyed in error back from the CDC at no cost. The board approved the resolution (listed in the meeting as resolution 25-128) to formally accept that property interest so the public record matches the corrected legal description.

The second resolution concerns an intergovernmental transfer of two parcels at the far west end of Park Street, just west of the library, to the RDC pursuant to \"36 1 11 8\" as discussed in the meeting. City staff said the parcels were originally acquired as excess right-of-way from the state Department of Transportation when US 31 was in design. Under a development agreement entered in 2018, the parcels are to be transferred to the RDC and consolidated with adjacent tracts to create a single developable parcel; staff said the developer has fulfilled the obligations under the original agreement.

John Veil described the two parcels as a triangular and a trapezoidal piece at the dead end of Park Street and said the transfer is a step toward creating a continuous developable parcel west of the library. \"Those parcels originally were acquired for the US 31 construction by the Department of Transportation,\" Veil said, describing how the city obtained the parcels through NDOT's disposal-of-right-of-way process.

Both resolutions were moved, seconded and passed by voice vote; the chair recorded \"Aye\" for each action and declared the motions carried. The board's acceptance of the returned property and the intergovernmental transfer were presented as routine steps to align deed records with past development agreements and to support an ongoing redevelopment plan for the Park Street west end.

","The board approved two resolutions: accepting property back to correct an inadvertent legal-description error and transferring two parcels to the Redevelopment Commission under a development agreement; both votes were unanimous.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6221126,"Board grants signing authority to speed roundabout contract on Old A Hundred And 46 in town",158,977000,1135000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3614779-145c54e15a7dc1d98d47b4cdcccc1db2&start=977&end=1135","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3614779-145c54e15a7dc1d98d47b4cdcccc1db2/thumbnail_977000.jpg","/articles/6221126/Westfield/Hamilton-County/Indiana/Board-grants-signing-authority-to-speed-roundabout-contract-on-Old-A-Hundred-And-46-in-town","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6221126-0667fb1784e5387bc716a98e7dc19e5c/orig.mp4?Expires=1771083233&Signature=ky~fD7mmjpZt~peXH6G8I9vJ0Pc2W60foDCTnNLWwvclxLca21eNRYztwRMOy4~DNXw-vNcAJ4ZezP37gduxw48QWyBPEL3vg1pB-MZdoO8AIxYzWNzcLaNs-mhA2xMiUs30MOGiEZej~MJDEYW100t5zgn9W5caPLNFa~MCVXI0CVfksmqi9aUXqIcS9bYv-ASVF9Il~FtojXgWRQxOdwQZ1yR~oKSgH2REmL2KhpXrmXH~6aOcZS9ghkX5NKDVLQt9LCDymHfhNwpo3KSXqfG2bRaSu-kh2f-DFgC1nGMwa9510UoNbXJzMweAzL63iuLq0xyBJOEp-fVYQWSD3Q__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Westfield Board of Public Works and Safety on a unanimous voice vote approved signing authority so staff can execute a contract for a roundabout project at the access road identified in the meeting as \"Old A Hundred And 46 in town.\" The board voted to allow staff to sign a contract with the low bidder to avoid delaying construction.

City engineer John Veil told the board the project drew six bids and the low bid was \"just under $2,000,000\" compared with a $2,660,000 engineer's estimate, producing roughly $650,000 in savings. He said the low bidder is the same contractor currently working on 150th in town and that \"the mobilization, demobilization cost should be relatively low for them to move south.\" The board approved authority for staff to sign the contract so the contractor could begin work rather than waiting until the next board meeting.

The nut graf: the authority speeds downtown-area work that the city and private developers have coordinated to maintain site access while construction proceeds. Veil said the city arranged phased construction to keep access open to nearby development and that the schedule aims to finish the roundabout by the end of the year, but the timeline is \"utility relocation dependent.\"

In board discussion, members asked about coordination and access. Veil said the city coordinated traffic management with adjacent developers so the site can remain accessible during construction; he specifically referenced a nearby fitness center that \"was wanting to break ground\" and said the plan is to construct the roundabout first, then allow the developer to access their site from the roundabout. He described the long-term layout as a four-legged roundabout and said the eastern leg will be built by the city while an adjacent developer will continue frontage road work on the east side.

The motion to grant signing authority was made and seconded; the board voice-voted \"Aye,\" and the chair declared the motion carried. Veil repeated that the city is working with utilities on relocation plans and noted that utility schedules will affect the construction timeline.

The board also clarified that the consent-agenda version of this action is the required signature on the cover sheet of the construction plans, a standard public-works requirement, and that the signing authority being approved covers formal award and contract execution at the low bid amount.

Looking ahead, the city expects the contractor to proceed quickly because the firm is already working nearby and has lower incremental mobilization costs, and staff will continue coordinating utility relocations and contractor traffic control.

","The Westfield Board of Public Works and Safety approved authority to sign a construction contract after a low bid under the engineer's estimate, enabling contractor mobilization and coordination with adjacent developers; the project remains utility-relocation dependent and slated for completion this year.","actionData","errors"]

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Fire chief reports rising call volume; community paramedicine cut extended-care calls

Board approves Daystar contract for continued Centennial sump-line work in multiple locations

Board approves property transfers to correct deed errors, transfer RDC parcels near Park Street

Board grants signing authority to speed roundabout contract on Old A Hundred And 46 in town